Zuckonit/unescape.py
Created Feb 17, 2014

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unescape html to python string

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unescape.py

      
        import urllib2
      
        import sys
      
        def cleanupString(string):
      
            string = urllib2.unquote(string).decode('utf8')
      
            return HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape(string).encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())

alexweber commented Aug 31, 2016

Thanks, this was really useful! :)

wsherby commented Aug 16, 2017

Very helpful, however you need to import HTMLParser

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